Hindi (disambiguation)

Hindi is an Indo-Aryan language or languages defined with various degrees of scope:

In the narrowest and in English perhaps most common sense, Hindi is Modern Standard Hindi, a literary style and standardised register of the Hindustani language.

In a slightly broader sense, Hindi is spoken Hindustani, as used for example in Hindi Cinema (Bollywood). In this sense Hindi is essentially the same as Urdu.

Hindustani proper (red), including Khari Boli and Kauravi. Dark grey are the other Indo-Aryan languages.

In an intermediate sense, Hindi is the Central Zone dialects of Western Hindi (including Hindustani) and Eastern Hindi (including Fijian Hindi).

An intermediate scope: Hindi languages (Indic Central Zone)

Western Hindi, including Braj Bhasha, Haryanvi, Bundeli, Bagheli, Awadhi and Kannauji

In the widest sense, "Hindi" covers the language varieties of the so-called Hindi belt: Western Hindi, Eastern Hindi, Bihari (including Caribbean Hindustani but excluding Maithili), Central and Western Pahari languages, and often Rajasthani.

The broadest scope: the Hindi belt

Historical usage

Historically, Hindi may refer to any Central-Zone Indic literary dialect (Khari Boli), including Urdu, Braj Bhasha, Awadhi, and Hindustani.

Other usages

The term Hindi may also refer to:

The word Hindi is cognate with Hind, Hindu, Indus, India, Indian, Sindhi, Sindh and Sindhu.

In Persian, Urdu and Arabic, the word Hindi means Indian.

See also

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